God's Imitator

The conclusion startled Wang Shengjie himself.

But he had no choice but to continue down this line of thought.

"There is no evidence room in this game, nor so many pieces of evidence designed by the Imitator. The Imitator simply doesn’t want to design it that way, nor is there a need to.

"Therefore, the core gameplay of this game is not ’solving the case,’ but ’possibility offense and defense.’

"It is not a confrontation between players and the Imitator, but a confrontation among the four Actors.

"The four Actors are not ’seeking the truth’ but ’creating the truth.’

"The final truth appears a bit bizarre and stitched together precisely because it was not a pre-designed truth by the Imitator, but a result of the fierce confrontation among the four Actors.

"The initial rules of this game were actually meant to deliberately mislead all players. The display of ’setting scripts’ as a prop, appearing several pages thick, is meant to deceive the players into believing this would be a game with a rough narrative framework.

"But in reality, there isn’t any.

"I initially thought that the script Brother Lin received probably didn’t have a plot, hence his passivity.

"And Tang Qing’s script should have been filled with plot, so he kept guiding the tempo and could pinpoint the subsequent plot direction after each recess and produce convincing evidence.

"Feng Yuguang should have thought the same, thus completely overwhelmed and at a loss.

"In fact, Tang Qing’s script is most likely blank as well, only informing him of the rules of ’creating evidence.’

"So he immediately understood the real gameplay of this game and confidently launched an attack on the other players.

"The ’Detective’ and ’Wealthy Merchant’, what they really need to do is not to search for evidence, but to determine a narrative direction themselves and ’customize’ the evidence they want.

"Of course, this customization should have some restrictions and cannot be done recklessly.

"Suppose Tang Qing pulls out a knife from the start, claiming it had blood from both parties and Lawyer Lin’s fingerprints on the handle, that would certainly be unacceptable as it deviates from the original narrative logic.

"Including when Tang Qing brought out the ’Full Power of Attorney,’ which only listed the male party’s designated law firm but did not have Lawyer Lin’s name.

"It’s not that Tang Qing didn’t want to include Lawyer Lin’s name, but he couldn’t do so, such direct framing is not permitted by the rules.

"Apart from these restrictions, players are free to express themselves.

"The ’Detective’ and ’Wealthy Merchant’ can design evidence with two strands of information: the first is surface information, which can be ’verified,’ and the second is deep information, which cannot be ’verified,’ yet truly exists.

"It’s like the ’Lion King Card’; Wang Yongxin deliberately separated the surface information from the deep information, thus misleading Tang Qing and making him mistakenly think it was evidence favorable to him, while also leaving room for Lawyer Lin to counter.

"Lawyer Lin already recognized this point, deliberately splitting the insurance information into two accounts to test this mechanism.

"Tang Qing might have noticed Lawyer Lin’s probing but believed himself to have a tremendous edge, thinking that by providing evidence systematically and forming a chain, he could overwhelm Lawyer Lin.

"Or perhaps he realized Lawyer Lin was a formidable adversary, opting for a swift conclusion even if the evidence was somewhat haphazardly made.

"He first deliberately set up a fake insurance policy to illustrate the male party’s specific method of deceiving the female party into signing the insurance policy.

"Afterwards, he didn’t even bother disguising, directly producing a whole set of documents, claiming three agreements as a single piece of evidence.

"As he needed to accomplish both ’resolving doubts’ and ’slinging mud at the Lawyer’ in this round of the game.

"And while Lawyer Lin seemed passive, he too was attacking.

"’Expert testimony’ and ’evidence’ are on the same hierarchical level.

"When Lawyer Lin says a certain inference does not align with the law, what he says becomes true.

"He holds the ’interpretation rights of legal provisions.’

"Similarly, as a doctor, Feng Yuguang essentially holds the ’interpretation rights of drug effects,’ meaning whether a type of drug can facilitate mental control, this result can be altered to some extent based on Feng Yuguang’s testimony.

"He was just too inexperienced, failing to realize this point.

"Testimonies, like evidence, should have certain limitations and can’t be nonsensical.

"Both parties can only present new evidence or testimony based on the progression of the case and the existing evidence.

"Therefore, Tang Qing and Bai Zilan frequently demanded validations of Lawyer Lin’s testimony, just like Jurors often verified evidence.

"Since this is inherently a part of offense and defense: whose evidence or testimony is considered genuine after validation effectively eliminates some possibilities advantageous to the opponent, akin to an assault on enemy territories.

"Both sides are clever, sidestepping hypotheses already rendered unusable, so in most cases, validation results are genuine.

"Tang Qing once presented the ’Full Power of Attorney,’ subsequently determined to be forged after verification.

"If it had been verified as true, Tang Qing might have already won.

"Why was it adjudged fake? Because it conflicted with the two prior insurance policy pieces of evidence and Lawyer Lin’s testimony to some extent.

"Once the prior two insurance policies were verified true, a predetermined fact was established: that the male must orchestrate a ruse with a fake policy to trick the female into signing the million-dollar policy.

"Hence, no matter what the male party does, it’s impossible to have her sign the ’Full Power of Attorney.’

"That is to say, when evidence and testimony conflict, this game has a set of hidden rules to determine which is true and which is false.

"For example, if two evidence pieces presented by the ’Detective’ conflict, with the former being verified as true, the latter can only be deemed false.

"The same goes for expert testimony. If a particular testimony has been verified as true, subsequent evidence contradicting it will be deemed false.

"Lawyer Lin clearly sensed this flaw, so when Tang Qing threw mud at him, he didn’t panic but pinpointed the file’s unreasonableness, further reinforcing it at a mechanism level with ’Lawyer testimony.’

"Thus, this evidence cannot be true. Even if it was initially set as true by Tang Qing, it would only be adjudicated as false by the game mechanism.

"Of course, game rules will protect the Actors. Even if something is deemed false, it won’t state it was ’Detective-forged,’ but rather ’male-forged.’

"So Tang Qing won’t be exposed; he can still manage to wiggle out of it with other rhetoric.

"The savants inside know this, but the vast majority of the Audience doesn’t understand.

"In conclusion, Lawyer Lin continuously blocks Tang Qing’s conjectures using legal provisions, forcing Tang Qing to fabricate more evidence to fill loopholes, but he also gradually falls into Lawyer Lin’s trap.

"For instance, when Lawyer Lin proposed that the female party didn’t have enough assets to buy a million-dollar insurance policy, Tang Qing was forced to produce the female party’s bank statements and asset certification.

"But before that, Lawyer Lin ruled out many possibilities:

"Because the female was deceived, she must be naïve, unlikely to be a powerful female executive or a company owner;

"If she were a wealthy second generation, her parents wouldn’t possibly turn a blind eye.

"Thus, Tang Qing can only prove the female party’s income via bank transactions, patching it with ’her parents left her properties.’

"But this precisely trapped him, as this narrowed the female party’s occupation to a limited scope:

"Only through gray income or being an influencer could money flow in this quickly without much brainwork.

"At this point, Lawyer Lin disclosed the specific information of the Lion King Card, completely locking in the female party’s identity and achieving a reversal.

"By this step, the female party’s occupation has been securely locked and is mutually corroborated with multiple pieces of evidence. Even if Tang Qing were to produce new evidence, like a labor contract demonstrating the female as a senior executive at a major firm, it will certainly be adjudged as false.

"I was always puzzled by why the final ’truth vote’ outcome was so odd.

"Now I understand.

"Players like Chen Yumei didn’t grasp what specifically happened, thinking Tang Qing could endure longer. As long as he could produce new evidence after recess, Lawyer Lin’s deduction could be overturned.

"But Tang Qing himself knew it was impossible.

"Because the deduction hit a dead-end, prolonging it would only disadvantage him further; he had no choice but to end it."